The U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security before DHS funding expires Friday.
Without DHS funding, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can still function largely uninterrupted. Still, other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will face disruptions.
The funding bill did not reach the 60-vote threshold to invoke cloture under the filibuster rule.
Only one Democrat, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, voted in favor of invoking cloture.
Per the Hill:
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, leaving Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal workers.
The motion, which required 60 votes, could not be adopted by a vote of 52 to 47.
Democrats blocked the legislation after rejecting an offer from the White House that they said did not go far enough to reform immigration enforcement operations following the fatal shooting of two protesters in Minneapolis last month.
As a result, funding for key agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Coast Guard will expire Saturday without further action from Congress.
This comes after a partial government shutdown ended last week with a negotiated spending package for the Department of Homeland Security, which only funded the department for about two weeks.
Democrats are demanding reforms to ICE, including unmasking agents, forcing them to wear body cameras during immigration, and forcing them to obtain arrest warrants from a judge, as opposed to administrative arrest warrants against criminal illegal aliens.
The Trump administration has already caved to some of Democrats’ demands by withdrawing ICE agents from Minnesota and forcing agents to wear body-worn cameras.
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